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More screenshots of Metro-style Hotmail leaked

Jun 8, 2012 6:10 am by damaster | 9 comments

So yesterday we just posted the first screenshot leak of the Metro-style Hotmail, today more screenshots from the service has leaked. German website WinFuture.de managed to get hold of several clear screenshots of the new Metro-style Hotmail, clearly showing how the interface looks like (in German). Check them out below:

As you can see, the header of the new Metro-styled Hotmail seems to have turned blue, instead of green as shown yesterday, but we believe that’s supposed to change. The menu options such as composing new e-mail, or formatting options, has been moved to the header. The top-left corner will now feature the search box, and this will be consistent throughout Hotmail, SkyDrive, People and Calendar. Unfortunately, the right-hand bar was not loaded in the screenshots, and hence we’re unable to see exactly what it will show there.

How do you like the new interface? Let us know in the comments below!

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Jamnes
These screenshots look MUCH better than first ones.
Regarding the blue header – I think it’s customizable! If you look at the Settings menu, it looks like there are colour swatches to allow user preference of colours. I’m guessing Green is the default colour (though I would have preferred Hotmail orange), and you can change the colour to the options listed there.
Tribbiani
Awesome!
http://doctorwhofan98.wordpress.com/ doctorwhofan98
These look quite good. I would prefer more visual consistency with the Windows 8 Mail app (e.g. formatting tools in the same places) though I know that you can’t use App bars or the Charms with websites.
I really hope the Win 8 Mail app won’t go the way of Windows Live Mail (as in Hotmail gets updated all the time with awesome new features, while WL Mail gets left to rot for a couple of years), because I love the integration with the OS (e.g. live tiles, snapped view and notifications). I really hope whenever Hotmail and SkyDrive get updated on the web, their Windows 8 apps will be updated to offer the same functionality. But we’ll just have to see if that really happens.
- cmwind
  considering the apps are the weakest link in windows 8 rp thus far I hope they update them frequently as well.
  I also really hope the first windows 8 service pack a year from now adds a few new features as well b/c metro is def. v, 1.0
  - frankwick
    Would agree. Windows 8 Metro is missing a ton of features and fit/finish that WP7.5 has.
uberlaff
This looks so much better than the existing Hotmail… I hate to even bring this up, but what is up with the colored circles? I hope they are part of a theme and can be removed.
- winfuture
  The colored circles looks like the watermark from winfuture.de
http://www.facebook.com/davidiap David Iapalucci
I think it looks great – the Metro philosophy is well suited to web pages.
narmez
its getting interesting more and more I like the blue color more than the green although its still at the beginning of the change l wonder how the final product with skydrive , office and calendar will look like